Exam 8: Everyday Memory and Memory Errors

The observation that older adults often become nostalgic for the "good old days" reflects the self-image hypothesis, which states that

Experiments that argue against a special flashbulb memory mechanism find that as time increases since the occurrence of the flashbulb event, participants

The repeated reproduction technique used in memory studies involves

In discussing the survival value of the memory system, your text highlights the undesirability of

Jackie went to the grocery store to pick up yogurt, bread, and apples.First, she picked up a hand basket for carrying her groceries, and then she searched the store.After finding what she needed, she stood in a check-out line.Then, the cashier put her items in a plastic bag, and soon after, Jackie left the store.As readers of this event, we understand that Jackie paid for the groceries, even though it wasn't mentioned, because we are relying on a grocery store _____ that is stored in _______ long-term memory.

Critics of eyewitness testimony could point to the ______ hypothesis to highlight the dangers of repeated questioning of eyewitnesses.

Flashbulb memory is best represented by which of the following statements?

Which of the following statements is true of the cognitive interview technique?

____ occurs when reading a sentence leads a person to expect something that is not explicitly stated or necessarily implied by the sentence.

Unconscious plagiarism of the work of others is known as

In the experiment in which participants sat in an office and then were asked to remember what they saw in the office, participants "remembered" some things, like books, that weren't actually there.This experiment illustrates the effect of _____ on memory.

Stany and Johnson's "weapons focus" experiment, investigating memory for crime scenes, found that

Schrauf and Rubin's "two groups of immigrants" study found that the reminiscence bump coincided with periods of rapid change, occurring at a normal age for people emigrating early in life but shifting to 15 years later for those who emigrated later.These results support the

Which of the following statements is true of police lineups?

Loftus and Palmer's "car-crash slides" experiment described in the text shows how a seemingly minor word change can produce a change in a person's memory report.In this study, the MPI was (were)the word(s)

Research on eyewitness testimony has shown that the more confident the person giving the testimony is of their memories,

When presenting lineups to eyewitnesses, it has been found that a ____ lineup is much more likely to result in an innocent person being falsely identified.

The "telephone game" is often played by children.One child creates a story and whispers it to a second child, who does the same to a third child, and so on.When the last child recites the story to the group, his or her reproduction of the story is generally shorter than the original and contains many omissions and inaccuracies.This game shows how memory is a ______ process.

The misinformation effect does not occur when people are told explicitly that the postevent information may be incorrect.

A lesson to be learned from the research on flashbulb memories is that